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A young boy flies a kite on top of a building in the Fort National neighborhood of the Haitian capital, one of the worst-hit districts in the city and an area where the government is cleaning up rubble and making way for new roads.

"I want to live," Philomise Blanc, 67, says. After losing her house in the earthquake, she moved in with her daughter and grandson Quieten Vixamar, 2, pictured. They live in the hilltop neighborhood of Fort National. "I want to live in peace and be able to eat and take care of myself," she said.

Sylvain Jean, 52, right, says he wants the government to release the materials needed to build temporary shelters like this one in his neighborhood. Widowed by the earthquake, he cares for his five children and waits for housing.

Lorciane Nicolas, 26, seated, and her sister Guilande, 20, standing next to her, say the water gets so high at times in this part of the Delmas 33 camp that it enters their makeshift house. But they've spent too much time and money making the camp their new home to want to leave, they say.

Tuberculosis patient Michelet Francois is visible beyond the equally thin body of Jean Marc at General Hospital. They and other patients seek refuge from the heat of the TB ward tents, which can reach 100 degrees. Although the patients are served regular meals, the calories aren't sufficient for them to get stronger.

Land disputes slow efforts to help Haiti’s homeless

People displaced by the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti have taken refuge on vacant land, often to the displeasure of landowners. But in Haiti, it’s difficult to know who really owns a piece of property because of generations of corruption, dictatorship, coups and spoils-sytem governance. Multiple people may lay claim to the same parcel, and that has complicated efforts to relocate the more than 1 million people still in need of homes. To build anything, officials must know who owns the land being built on. Times staff writer Joe Mozingo and staff photographer Liz O. Baylen traveled to Haiti in July to report this story. Read the full story, “No plan in sight for Haiti’s homeless.“